Mr.Birne stopped firing, but a week after, Dolores found it was raining in her room.

The landlord went to visit Mr.Birne, and found him taking saltwater baths in his drawing room.

This room, which was very large, had been lined all round with sheets of metal, and had had all the doors fastened up.

Into this extempore pond some hundred pails of water were poured, and a few tons of salt were added to them.

It was a small edition of the sea.